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A nicely framed shot of somebody attempting a basketball dunk does not fit. The world, other than Nike advertising, didn't take it as deeply meaningful.

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That's Michael Jordan that was iconoclast.
Its the Air Jordan insignia. It was remarkable. There's even a story behind it they were trying to get him to make a statement with his athletic ability. It stuck.

Some of THE most important pictures of the 20th century (yes I know falling man is technically 21st)

It is crazy how much power a single picture frame can hold.

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Gotta love that Saigon Execution photo. Too bad the truth behind it wasn't told at the time. Here's the truth....

What do most people not understand about “Saigon Execution”?
The photo shows General Loan, arm outstretched, shooting a prisoner who looked like a civilian, though he was actually a Viet Cong guerrilla. The picture was front-page news and ultimately won the Pulitzer Prize for spot photography. But Eddie Adams later said that the picture didn’t tell the story and that he was sorry he took it.

The man who was shot was Bay Lop, who had beheaded people, been caught in the act of gunning down policemen, and killed the family of one of General Loan’s friends. That doesn’t necessarily justify what Loan did. But when stripped of context, it looked like someone from the South Vietnamese national police gunning down some helpless guy, and that was not the case. Bay Lop was the leader of a sophisticated assassination team that was attempting to knock off all the top leaders [of South Vietnam], and General Loan was on their list.

But the picture had a big impact in the U.S., right?
It had a huge impact, because people who were against the war immediately seized on it. And the North Vietnamese put on a propaganda tour around the world using the photo as its centerpiece, telling people: This is who we are fighting—this terrible regime in Saigon that guns down helpless prisoners.